Many in Latin America are recognizing that bringing a child into the world we are headed into is not a blessing or a gift.

Please take the long view. The Covid-19 situation might get better for you in a year or two, but it will take a struggle to win humanity and the ecosphere a tolerable future 20 years from now.

*Top security official for slain Haitian president arrested by police.*

Facebook will do more to ensure that promotion of drinking alcohol does not reach teenagers.

This increased exception to the usual functioning of Facebook is a change for the better, but I suspect that Facebook will retain the data collected from teenagers, and from children, and use it to profile them once they reach 18. And perhaps use it in other ways than advertising.

Unvaccinated state employees in California will have to be tested each week, and wear N95 masks while on the job.

Biden is considering a similar rule for US government workers.

I am very much in favor of this.

*Justice Department opposition kills major insurance merger.*

Yes! Block all mergers of large companies!